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chicksdaddy writes "Even the bleakest circumstances look a bit brighter after a good nap — a fact that isn’t lost on malware authors, according to researchers at the firm FireEye, which have identified a new Trojan Horse program that uses extended sleep cycles to fool behavior based malware detection technology.

In a blog post Tuesday, researchers Abhishek Singh and Ali Islam said the new malware, dubbed Trojan Nap, has a function, dubbed SleepEx() that can be used to configure long “naps” that the malware takes after it is installed on a compromised system. The default value, 600,000 milliseconds – or 10 minutes – seems designed to fool automated analysis systems that are programmed to capture a sample of behavior for a set time frame. “By executing a sleep call with a long timeout, Nap can prevent an automated analysis system from capturing its malicious behavior,” FireEye said."Link to Original Source